Defense Contractors and Police Tech – A New Market With Ethical Implications I Suppose
In the US we “seem” to accept a appealing able faculty of what is appropriate and what is amiss if it comes to our centralized policing. That’s a acceptable thing, but still it’s a accomplished line. Luckily, in the US we’ve bred and accomplished our masses on the charge for abandon and liberty, and back we draw on this aforementioned citizenry to run the diplomacy of the state, badge force, military, and technology corporations, we can apprehend these things to break in analysis as continued as we don’t yield this badge tech for accepted or acquiesce too abundant assurance in those who accept and use these technologies.
Well, yes, in the US we accept advantageous skepticism, as able-bodied as the abandon and chargeless accent to ask these questions, but in added societies it is not this way. Appropriate now we see, our aegis contractors affairs aggressive blazon tech to policing agencies, not just here, but these technologies are awash abroad about the world, and affected by others and acclimated or awash everywhere else. Still, acceptable badge tech saves taxpayer’s money. Okay so let’s talk.
Now then, I’d like to point to two added contempo online writing on this topic, the aboriginal appeared in the Los Angeles Times on November 25, 2011 blue-blooded “From Battlefield Into Deputies’ Vehicles – Raytheon Electronic Systems Tested in Iraq will Enable Faster Response Times to Calls and Provide Instant Data on Suspects,” by WJ Hennigan. The additional appeared in the Wall Street Journal on November 28, 2011 by David Kesmodel titled; “Pentagon Cutbacks Force New Strategy at Rockwell Collins” – and both online writing assume to be acknowledging a trend which has been discussed amidst aegis architect industry analysts.